The Scattergories Files

Okay, here's something out of left field. Maybe you just needed a diversion today.

My sister and I dug our old Scattergories game out of the game cupboard, and discovered a bunch of used game papers. For some reason I found reading through the random, out-of-context words and phrases oddly meditative. And funny.

So before I threw the papers away, I thought I'd share some of their contents here for you to peruse. I dunno, read them aloud to yourself to calm your mind or something. Or use them for creative writing inspiration.

Lists of random things are too important to go to waste!

Thomas Edison

Electric Slide

Eels

Ecru

Albacore tuna

Ate bad food

Apple pie

Annette Funicello

Anyang, China

ITT Tech

Iberia

Itchy rashes

Icy roads

The Indian in the Cupboard

Rio de Janeiro

Reese’s Pieces

Resort stays

Reeboks

Nougat

Nobel Prize

Nutmeg

Not turning off lights

Nail clippers

Neatly store it

Newt

Nitpicking

Nightshade

Wahoo’s Fish Tacos

Frank Lloyd Wright

White peaches

Jicama

Aioli

Aviornis

Attempt to hijack a bus

Intake valves

Important documents

Idaho

IV fluid

Investment

Death Valley

Dental work

Dark secrets

Edsel

Eating others' food

Eryops

Eggplant

Krispy Kreme doughnuts

Keeping other people awake

Kohl

Kronosaurus

Kite flying

Recreational rowing

Rail shooters

Carburetor

Cravat

Cratons

Copy and paste

Chasing dreams

In the woods

Inyo County

International peace summits

Irving

Indigo

Internet cats

Irritatingly long lines

Terrible heat

Taking out the trash

England in winter

Evil ninjas

Even Stevens

Lieopleurodon

Lofty dreams

Last frontiers

Louie Armstrong

Titanium atom

Terribly

Tap dance

Ticker tape

Tuberculosis

"The Great"

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Egg timer

Exam supplies

Extremely frightening clowns

Bricklike fruitcake

Guardedly

Grate cheese

Gargoyles

Garnish

Got lice

Grand master

Fondue

Found clues

Fandango

Foghorn

Four score and seven years ago...

Fish without eyes

Hypsilophodon

Highway 126

Hungry people

Hard drive

Cooking Light

Columbus, OH

Candy corn

Corvette

Cufflinks

Cop impersonation

Anti-ballistic missile

Arguing birds

Not legal things

Really crazy effects work

Rambunctious

Rowdy guests

Real food

Had lice

Honorable judge

Occidental

Oppressive sewer smell

Overbearing parents

Baton Rouge

Brillo-pad hair

Bringing someone dinner

Lousy evidence

Laguna

Lash him with a wet noodle

Last inning

Lemon yellow

Long lines

Knickers

Killer robots

Kids wreaking havoc

Kerberos, the moon of Pluto

Car headlights

Calculus textbooks

Crepe paper

Peel an orange

Prize machines

Rate My Professor

Rice pudding

Reuben sandwiches

Caught by pirates

Canberra

Calliope

Lamprey

Luxembourg

Nowhere near me

Nut brittle

New shoes

Junior prom

Jumping and jiving

Jalopy

Applying varnish

Transmission

Terrible odors

Taco night

Torque wrench 

So many things

Supernova

Sorbet

Surreptitiously

Sappy endings

Woodlands

West L. A.

War memorials

Warm spring nights

Wilhelmina

Wearing ferrets as hats

Marianas Trench

My evil twin

Macaroni and clams

Most improved

Marjoram

Malted milkshakes

Khublai Khan

Knowledgable employees

Gas station owner

Grandma's cooking

Go outside

General Sherman

Guilt-prone

Whooping cough shot

Walking fast

Waste in bin

Incredible cake

Ignition

Imply things to people

Ridiculed

Right click

Rice Dream

Red socks

Room numbers

Really big fish

Rutabaga

Potatoes of sorts

Play in the rain

Kicking your feet while swimming

Kilometer of air

Barn caretaker

Mindless behavior

Jabberwocky hunting

Infant fingers

Italian seasoning

Back of knee

Bakalava

Baryon

Rich feasts

Rocky planets

Large asteroids

Lovely singing

Good old fashioned top hat

Glistening lights

Garden gnomes

Tap dance routine

Tiger lily

Tasmanian devils

Too lazy

Suspects

Sandwich shops

Sad moments

Wherever in America

With a bat

WONDERFULNESS

Minneapolis

Malicious spiders

Mavericks

Whistling Hills Way

In the wind

Off-white

Good kinds

Glee club

Gas particles

Gullible

Jam it in the fridge

Jumpers

Just about nothing

Ear canal

E-check

Edible snacks

Implements to find Sasquatch

Ichabod

Incredible weather

Importance to life as we know it

Figgy pudding

Flattery will get you nowhere

Flat land

Flying planes

Salty pretzels

Sudden death

Safety shelters

Laser guns

Lunar... ness

Lengthy conversations

My hands

Most wanted

Mercedes

Inconclusive evidence

Lacrosse

Lymph nodes

Lint